We had a celebration service at Redeemer, it's wonderful to have everyone cheering, clapping and feeling good about what we are doing.
After the celebration service we met Dr. And Mrs Postma, former Winnipeggers and Mr and Mrs Templeman - Mr Templeman's family immigrated from Holland The same as time Harv's dad's family.
On Monday we cycled from Ancaster ON to Ajax ON, I worried about the traffic but it wasn't bad. We had some nice trails along the Lake Ontario shore. We had coffee, dainties and fruit at church, there were bananas from the churches of Toronto at the bridge crossing the River and drumstick ice cream cones in the Park by Lake Ontario. Monday night we stayed at the Ajax Community Sports arena. We had warm showers and free swimming but no hose to connect to the kitchen trailer so the sweep team had to haul warm water by the bucket full to wash dishes and cold water for drinking, cooking and coffee. The Blue Team had the misfortune of being on sweep duty - both Harv and I are on the blue sweep team, so it felt like doing the chores - carrying. 5 gallon pails of water.
Tuesday we biked from Ajax to Trenton, 83 miles. The CRC churches of the area are feeding us well 13 miles in we stopped at Church for coffee, Tim Bits, fruit,and every kind of cake and cookies you could think of. Then at the halfway mark there just happened to be another CRC church. They also had sloppy Joe's and fruit, and lots of cake and cookies. Then near the end, about another 30 miles or so, another CRC church treated us to some Dutch oly bolen, and ice cream, and lots of fruit, and cake and cookies, and candies. This was a day when it turned out good to be a bit slow. Many riders were soaked by a torrential thunderstorm. We felt a few drops, and the road was freshly washed and clean, and still wet, but we did not get wet at all.
On Wednesday we went from Trenton to Kingston Ontario we visited the Hope Fellowship CRC church. They had refreshments, Tim Bits Fruit and a candy table. The second church we stopped at was Grace CRC in Cobourg they had sloppy Joes, Deserts of all sorts and fresh fruit. At night we arrived at Trenton Christian School and were treated to wonderful deserts after supper. In addition to all this good food we get to see the Loyalist area of Canada, beautiful towns with flowers in gardens, the old fashioned store fronts and hanging baskets, and always a little,Britain shop of some sort.
We took the Glenora ferry across a bay to complete our journey to Lake Ontario Park in Kingston
On Thursday we cycled from Kingston to Brockville, which is only 50 miles so we took the Thousand Island boat tour of the islands by Gananoque, islands with beautiful cottages and each one is fully serviced with electricity and phone. The largest "cottage" was built by the owner of the Waldorf Astoria Hotels. It's a replica of a European Castle which he built for his wife but it was never lived in because she died before it was finished, now New York has finished and refurbished it for tourism. Our suppr was boerenkool stompot with homemade applesauce, made by Bethel CRC from Brockville, delicious!
On Friday we cycled from Brockville to Cornwall ON we are staying at the NAV Center and I am doing laundry - hopefully for the last time on this trip. I felt strong today the ride was mostly a slight downhill and the wind is at our back, we followed along the Long Sault Parkway for a time, a road that goes from island to island in the St Lawrence. we were fed well again by the area CRCs, Hard boiled eggs and cinnamon buns for our first stop, cookies and candies at the second. Our own SAG people did the third stop with watermelon and chips. I'm sure I'm eating the 5000 calories a day they said we would, when I get home I'm sure I'll be able to stop biking cold turkey but I don't know about stopping eating every half hour.
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